The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-17

last week, was the maker of all the paper used
by the governmentfor green backs, national bank
notes and bonds. He was an ardent Republican
and noted philanthropist.
III. JOHNSON, London correspondent of the
Paris Figaro, describes Mr.. Gladstone as being
younger looking and more jaunty than he ever
saw him before, with a white rose in his button
hole and beam of triumph in his glance.
THE squaw of chief of the Sioux
Eloped with red headed Joux;
The pair in Dubuque
The husband o ertuaue,
And ne made nice how dioux yioux- dioux.
Exchange
WHEN Henry Ward Beeche- applied for life
insurance in the Union Mutual thirty years ago,
he was asked the usual question as to the health
of his heart. His answer read: Experienced
peculiar feeling about the heart during the days
of my courtship.a
A HUNDRED years ago Abiel Pease started the
great clock-makine industry of Connecticut He
was a native of Enfield and there made, with
jack knife. his first clock. From this rude be-
ginning has grown up an industry which sup
plies a great portion of the world with time
pieces.
WHEN Herr Won Bulow was refused admit
lance to the Royal Opera house in Berlin on the
occasion of the first production Of the opera OF
Merlin" he was quite indignant, but one of his
friends who assisted at the first act came out
anu Sdiu: man wants out l1ttl0 heir buiOW,
and that reconciled him.
WHEN Lieutenant Emory, who figured so
prominently in the Greedy relief expedition, was
building his house on Connecticut avenue
Washington he noticed the lion and the unicorn
over the port-cochere over the British minister's
house across the way, and had tomahawk put
over the port-cochere OF his own house.
HJALMER HJoRTH BoYEsEN is figure in New
York literary society. He writes excellent En-
glish, and between his literary work and his
professorshiD in Columbia College. has an in
come of 900 year He is red-whiskered,
big, robust and not at all like literary swell.
George Eliot and he were the best of friends.
A DOUBLE chicken of the Samese-twin pat
tern absorbs the attention Of the people of
Rochefort. Mo- 1t has two heads and two pairs
of legs. but these several members do not agree
when the chicken takes its, their, walks
abroad-one head and pair of legs trying to
shape their course to the right, and the balance
as persistently working for a larboard course.
AN old resident IN New York tells how Robert
Fulton worked. He often saw him in the shop
in which he learned his trade and where the
great inventor was experimenting the building
of machinery for his steam boats. Fulton heard
nothing while in the shop and saw nothing. He
was SO intent on his work that it was necessary
to rouse him by touch, before he would break
away.
| THE Independent: Oliver Wendell Holmes
| once perpetrated an atrocious pun when asking
| Abraham Lincoln to respond to toast at
small impromptu dinner. All the gentlemen
| were IN dress suits except the distinguished
| guest, whose first words were: 81 make the
same plea, gentlemen, in extenuation of my
| dress as do of that joke you just heard 1t Is
| Holmesnun."
julius CHAMBERS. the new managing editor
of the New York Herald, when a reporter on the
! Tribune, got himself locked up in lunatic asy-
lum and described his cruel treatment thereby
| making great sensation. He has since written
| novel describing life at Cresson Springs on
| the Pennsylvania railroad. and the company was
so struck with the value of the book as an adver-
| tisement that it ordered %, 900 copies, which
| netted Chambers handsome sum.
MONTREAL Gazette: What is the origin of the
name Rocky mountainsl' find it in the mar
rative Of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de
| la Verandrye, whose three sons, on the 1st of
January. 1743, first sighted the magnificent
range. They called it s..Montagnes de Pierres
| Brilliantes," from the sparkling of the SUBMITS
in the sunshine. Then came the more prosaic
| name "Montagnes Rocheuses" or Rocky noun
tains,' and our still more prosaic, Rockies"
Pope LEo's famous collection of laces has re-
ceived an important addition. Some wealthy
Catholics at Venice have presented to him set
OF lace which they have cause to be executed at
the lace schools of Burano. The design is copie
from the famous Rezzonieo set which was mad g
for Clement XIII by the Venetian nuns and
| which now forms part of the treasure of the
House of Savoy, and is occasionally worn by
Queen Margaret. The schools Of Burana have
| Ihree times reproduced the pattern of this his
toric lace, one copy being in the Kensincton
| Museum, one in the possession of the Duchess of
| Hamilton and the third in that of the wife of
| Mr.. W. W. Astor lately American minister a.
Rome The copy destined for Leo XIII cost
$240 yard.
IN paper entitled "The Handwriting of the
Insane" recently read in Philadelphia, Mrs
Henry Hazlehurst said that the giving away OF
the mind in an educated person was often shown
in bad spelling, biotting frequent erasures, the
absurd use of parentheses, itacization and I'M
derscoring in excess Insane pride and obsti-
macy take to capitals, and. it is said. make fire.
ouent use of the letter 'P.v which becomes per-
fectly enormous. Many of these indicia were
to be found in the handwriting of ex Sheriff
Rowan, who recently became insane. In him
too was noted another popularity, tendency
to commence at the right instead OF the lef
hand side of the paper, this being carried so fal
that often he would not leave himself room or
the paper to complete even his signature.
THE Rochester Union says that Hiram Sibley
of that city, is the best hog guesser in western
New York, and proves it By telling how he ono,
visited farm where a hog had just been killed
and was asked to guess on its weight Afte
due elaboration and estimation he said slowly
THAT hog weighs exactly observation-disclosures
sixty -one-pounds -and--a-auarter." The hos
was placed upon the scales 1t ghed 26ls
half pound over Mr.. Sbley's guess! He wa
; thoroughly disguised, and said "How could
have been much mistaken2" Presently nj
eyes lighted up with triumph, as he detected
stone in the hogs mouth designed to keep tn
jaws dstended while the carcass was bein,
dressed. Take out that plug" said he san,
you will find it weighs precisely half pound
] And it did, says the Union, ito a grain!"
COMMENT AND OPINION.